Redis, from the Ground Up

Redis, from the Ground Up

A deep dive into Redis' origins, design decisions, feature set, and a look at a few potential applications.

Redis (“REmote DIctionary Service”) is an open-source (BSD-licensed) database server.

• History
• Data Structure Server
• Key Advantages
  • Performance
  • Atomicity
  • Foundational Data Types
  • Polyglot Persistence
  • Client Protocol
  • Getting Started
• Key Disadvantages
  • RAM
  • Persistence
  • Memory Bloat
• Diving In
  • String Keys
  • Expiry
  • Sidenote: memcached?
  • Replication
  • Persistence
    • Options
    • Binary Dumps and In-Memory Representation
    • Problems
  • Expiry
    • Redis Versions Prior to 2.1.3
    • Redis Versions 2.1.3 and Above
  • More on Strings
    • Increment
    • SETNX and Locking
  • Lists
  • Sets
  • Sorted Sets
  • Hashes
  • Redis Transactions
  • Redis Virtual Memory
    • Limitations
    • Implementation Details
  • Publish/Subscribe
    • Example
  • Usage Examples
    • Caching
    • Nginx + Redis
    • Interprocess Communication
    • Views
    • Job Management
    • Locking
  • Designing with Redis
  • Other Resources

转： http://blog.mjrusso.com/2010/10/17/redis-from-the-ground-up.html